Paul Winkeler wrote:
On May 15, 2015, at 11:10, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]> wrote:

If I compromise your secret key, the nicest possible thing i can do with
it is get it revoked.  There is no reason to prevent this action from
anyone who has access to the secret key.

Isn’t this a means to effect a denial of service attack?

Yes.

But if an attacker has the private key you definitely want to stop the service using the accompanying public key cert. Because if you provide a TLS secured service you somewhat promise to the user that the traffic cannot be intercepted.

=> full ack with Rich's statement here

Ciao, Michael.


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